(hmmm)  I’ve been thinking about this story again in the last few days…

@thane15, among others, pointed out that the Doctor needed to let Clara go because he had become preoccupied with her and it was getting in the way of focusing on his own health and the needs of others.  The Doctor devotes himself to saving as many people as he can, af…[Read more]

Just woke up to the news. (sniff)

I’m trying to look on the bright side.  Since this is Twelve’s final run of shows, logic dictates he has to have a happy finale, given how badly things went for him in in “Death in Heaven” and “Hell Bent”, where he was cheated out of the happy endings he earned with so much toil.

Perhaps at last the universe…[Read more]

(sigh)  I really wish, right now, that I could find something to distract myself with.  There isn’t much I can do about the way things have been going of late, but it’s hard not to focus on it either.  But there’s been no fresh Who-news in a while, and none of this year’s big movies are exciting me…  :/  Is there any major good news out ther…[Read more]

@thane15  @missy  @mudlark  @winston  @ichabod  Thanks for all your support.  (hugs)  I wish I could do more than sign petitions and give to local and not-so-local charity groups.

(whew)  All that ranting aside, I have found out through Tumblr that Peter Capaldi was at the London “branch” of the massive women’s rights march yesterday (Saturday), along with Elaine.  😉  See, the Doctor is on our side!

@janetteB  @missy (hmmm)  Thinking back on the Doctor’s story in Series 9, it’s hard to see what lesson to take from it that can apply to me in these grim times.  As Missy tells Clara, and Clara points out to the Doctor later in that season, the Doctor always wins in the end because he goes into situations knowing that the way to win just needs to…[Read more]

@thane15 @missy @alexwho  Thank you for your kind words.  @ichabod, I’m afraid I live in the middle of Illinois, so I don’t think phone conversations would be feasible.  But being able to talk about things here does a bit of good in and of itself.

Yeah, I am trying to do kind and charitable things — not always easy under my circumstances — bu…[Read more]

@janetteb, in the comic strip featured in Doctor Who Adventures — the kid-friendly tie-in magazine, as opposed to the more adult-oriented Doctor Who Magazine — Twelve is currently traveling with an alien, talking, even flying horse as a companion!

@missy I loved London too, the two times I visited (1995 and 2014).

How’s everyone in my country (the U.S.A.) handling all this icy weather, huh?  🙂

I’ve noticed a lot of anxiety for this year to come everywhere, including on these boards.  I’ve been feeling it too — I was heartbroken by the presidential election.  I’ve noted before that I’…[Read more]

@kharis I like your theories on who might have written on the chalkboard.

During Series 8 I wrote a poem playing with this sort of thing, in which the Doctor — having lost Clara for good — is alone in the TARDIS and brooding but then senses an invisible presence.  He believes it must be the “Hider”, though it could just be his imagination…[Read more]

Wow, interesting conversation about the Doctor and his sorrow.  I know I’m deeply affected by the wounds he has in his hearts and the cruelty he has experienced — look how much I wrote over in the “Hell Bent” thread!  And I still haven’t brought myself to watch and cope with the feels in certain Series 8 episodes…especially the finale.  I…[Read more]

Over at Tumblr, some fans noted that Mr. Huffle’s hair, all dark and done up, looks kind-of-sort-of like what we’ve seen of…Bill’s hair!  Could it be foreshadowing of the help he needs coming along this spring?  😀

@missy, @ichabod, et.al.  — Talking about kids and Doctor Who — in the United States, Doctor Who has never really trea…[Read more]

I rather enjoyed this one!  I would rank “The Husbands of River Song” above it as far as the Twelfth Doctor’s Christmas shows go — to be fair, I haven’t got around to “Last Christmas” yet so I can’t make a final ranking; shame on me — but “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” is definitely well worth the wait.  And I think you’ll like it too @missy .…[Read more]

@missy  Thank you!

I’m feeling a bit lonesome today myself.  We have friends coming over to the “family homestead” tonight, but they all talk around me; I’m no good at small talk.  A close family member spent part of this last week in the hospital with a concussion from a fall, though they’re recovering.  And all the sour news in the world is cas…[Read more]

@missy, I didn’t attend Chicago TARDIS 2015 so I haven’t met Billie Piper yet.  😉  Actually this was the first Chicago TARDIS I attended since 2008, where everything went a little pear-shaped with the schedule and the lines were insanely long for the guests!

Oh, @missy — to answer your question, Chicago TARDIS, as a regional, fan-organized convention, can only get so many special guests from year to year — and Capaldi and the key creative team are busy filming right now, after all.  Professional commitments always take precedence over conventions, unfortunately.  Last year Jenna Coleman was all s…[Read more]

Haven’t seen the clip, but I’ve read the story it features.  The Twelve Doctors of Christmas book is a truly exceptional short story collection — there seem to have been quite a few of those lately (Time Lord Fairy Tales, the Ashildr and River Song anthologies, The American Adventures…)  But this one is the best I’ve read of late.  They had som…[Read more]

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Hey everybody!  Finally managed to get back in here.  I’ve been busy the past few weeks — and it’s not always easy to log into these forums!

Best wishes with the surgery @missy.

I attended the Chicago TARDIS convention over Thanksgiving weekend.  Compared to the general-interest Wizard World Chicago, this was much more rewarding when it came to…[Read more]

Happy Doctor Who Day!

@ichabod, You put Capaldi’s skill into words better than I ever could!  @missy, I feel the same way about his work — the way he gets under the skin.  Just a few minutes into “Robot of Sherwood”, the first Twelve episode I watched, and I wanted to give him all the hugs.  “Listen” was even better in that regard.  The pre-…[Read more]